Hello! I'm not dead!

I've just been burning the candle at both ends on lots of other work!

• burn the candle at both ends (definition from Eijiro on the Web)
  昼も夜も忙しい生活｛せいかつ｝をする、朝から晩まで忙しく動き回る、無理｛むり｝なことをして体力｛たいりょく｝［精力｛せいりょく｝］を使い果たす◆【直訳】ろうそくの 両端に火をつける
  ・I will have to burn the candle at both ends to finish this by the deadline. : これを締め切りまでに終わらせるためには、朝早くから夜遅くまで働かなければならないだろう。
  ・You cannot burn the candle at both ends. : 同時に逆のことをすることはできない。

One thing that I've just started is a Twitter account. Sometimes I want to say something brief about a mistake.

• brief 手短い, 束の間, 簡にして要を得た, ブリーフ (definition from Edict)

× Other times, I want to level up my Japanese.
◯ Other times, I want to improve my Japanese.

For more on the mistake above, see this post:

http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_09.html

I figure that Twitter is a good place to do both. You can follow my Twitter account here:

http://twitter.com/renickupgrade

I'll have a Golden Week post tomorrow!